Christmas!

This year I spent Christmas at the Jacoby's house and then went to Corvallis to celebrate with my family on the 26th.  The Jacoby's have a tradition of getting their picture taken with Santa every year.  I teased them but did end up getting in one picture when we were there.  Everyone asked Santa for Oregon to win the National Championship for football, and Santa ended up being a huge duck fan himself so hopefully our wish comes true.  Mark and I's first wish did come true as we ended up getting tickets to the game.  We actually fly to Arizona tomorrow and will be there until next Wednesday.  This will give us a chance to check out all the festivities and really enjoy a vacation.  We do have to miss school, but it's our senior year and it is worth it.

Christmas was also very special for Mark and I because he gave me a promise ring.  My sister says this makes him my Beyonce (boyfriend + fiance) since we are kinda in between the two.  The ring is gorgeous, Mark did a great job!  Anyways I will post again with more pictures after the national championship game but just wanted to get this done before we leave ahhh tomorrow!! GO DUCKS!

Always Mikaylee

Fall Term is over!

My last fall term ever is over.  Wow what a term.  Classes were alright, I get my grades soon.  More importantly to a sports fan is this term in football.  Oregon was amazing!  Mark and I booked flights to Arizona today so we are definitely at least going to be going to the stadium, hopefully we'll find tickets to the game!

Now I'm in Mercer Island with the Jacoby's until December 26th when I go to Corvallis until January 2nd.. Then week 1 of winter term.. then that Friday we fly to Arizona until Wednesday!  I'm so excited!

More to come later in break, hopefully with pictures!

Bye Bye PGE Park

Well last Monday the 6th was the last game at PGE Park.  My internship is pretty much over although I might go help out with playoffs if I can. Here is a picture of our staff group.  We had such a fun season and I'm sad that we are done.  

The last few games were sad and it was especially sad when I went in the day after the last game to clean some things up and I saw the field getting torn apart for the remodel.  Now I am on Mercer Island with Mark and his family but on Monday Mark and I are driving to my parents house so that after a summer in Portland I can get all my stuff together to move to Eugene on Tuesday.  I am so excited to move into my apartment on Tuesday!!  YAY!

Mark's little sister Lindsey broke her collar bone in the first minute of her first soccer game of the season so she is now sitting out of soccer and cheer so we have been hanging out with her and making sure she is okay.  Mark is being such a sweet brother getting her food and stuff.

The Ducks play Tennessee in less than 2 hours which is also very exciting because we are ranked 7th and I am just so excited to see what we do this season.

More to come later when I get all moved into my apartment.

GO DUCKS
Always Mikaylee

Summer Haps

I haven't blogged in forever, I have been so busy at work and I wanted to wait to figure out some things before I could write.  What I had to figure out was for a little while it looked like I was going to go to Hawaii with Mark and his family because of the cheap airfare but then things fell through so we are going to go to Manzanita so I am still excited (more on that after other updates)

so working at PGE Park is still great I love working for the Beavers and Timbers.  I have really been enjoying having office hours also its cool to be able to write the scripts and such.  Also for Fright Night on Friday the 13th I came up with a contest that fit the theme that involved matching a phobia to the definition.  I was really excited for it and it was a hit, my boss even got a text from her boss saying he liked it!!!  That was really exciting!  My aunt and uncle went to NY for awhile (they get back tomorrow) but I was not able to stay at their house for awhile because they had house exchange visitors.  For the first couple days I stayed at my friend Natalie's in Lake Oswego because I still had to work games but once I had days off I went down to Eugene to visit Mark.  I had lots of fun in Eugene!

Eugene:
Mark and I's friends Sara and Russell were there so we hung out with them a bunch.  One day we went floating the river, it was warm until we got to the river and then it was freezing and then as we were on the river it started to thunder and lightning and rain.  So I paddled as fast as I could and like ran back to their house.  After warming up we all went to dinner at Steelhead and then I realized how much I was craving chocolate and Sara agreed so we all went to Coldstone.  The next day we went to the Natural Rock Slides by Triangle Lake.  That was so much fun!  I  can't wait to go again!  Then Thursday I hung out as long as I could and Mark and I got frozen yogurt but then I had to leave to stop by and see my mom in Corvallis and then get to Portland.

Back in Portland:
I worked yesterday from 10am-10:30pm at PGE Park.  There were fireworks after the game!  Now I have a few days off so I am working for Mudd Coffee Shop hanging fliers to make some money.  Wednesday I have office hours at PGE Park and then there is a BBQ at the Park also.  Then Thursday I have office hours and then I am working the Timbers game.  Then Friday morning off to Manzanita for a bit with Mark and his family.

I got hit:
yes poor Kiki did incur damage in her third collision with another car.  I was pulling into a driveway on Friday morning to turn around to park for work.  I started to back up then I noticed a bicycle and so I stopped and waited.  Right when I was about to start going a van that was also in the driveway started backing up at me all of a sudden.  I honked the horn for my first time.  The van did dent my drivers side door and knocked off my rear view mirror.  Fortunately the lady did realize that it was completely her fault... She never looked back obviously or she would have seen me.  So this week I am getting a quote for insurance and then getting my car fixed and my insurance will pay and then charge her insurance.  I took care of all the calls and the insurance people said they were very impressed.

Puddles the Duck:
Last Sunday was Lucky's (The Portland Beavers Mascot) birthday!  Other mascots were supposed to come to celebrate and we got Puddles costume without having a person to fill it come along and so I played Puddles for the day.  It was so much fun because I had to be goofy and mess around all game.  I also signed a lot of autographs and took a lot of pictures with all the fans.  It was awesome I have one picture below and hopefully I will be able to add a few more later.

I dominated Benny!

Always more excitement to come!
Always Mikaylee

Futboleros

so yesterday I had office hours at PGE.  First we worked on all kinds of stuff for the baseball games and theme nights but for the last while we were looking at things we can do next year when the Timbers are in the MLS.  Because Portland is "Soccer City" and pretty serious about the Timbers being MLS we have to make sure the promotions fit Portland.  Many MLS teams have dance teams and bands but in Portland that doesn't seem to fit.  So I researched the other teams to come up with all these ideas for next year.  One thing I found when I was looking for ideas was the LA Galaxy Futboleros.  Now that is so cool!  Wouldn't it be sweet if all MLS teams had their own Futbolero crew.  For your enjoyment a video of some of the Futbolero tricks!

Vacations and frustrations

Wow, the past two weeks have been crazy!  There was 4th of July weekend at PGE then the 6th I drove home because my sister, brother in law and Emmett were visiting.  I had a lot of fun with them.  We went to parks and just played with choo choos and mowers and other fun things around the house.  Emmett is getting to be such a big boy (he will be 2 in September) he can count to 10 sometimes and other awesome things.  I had a lot of fun spending time with him but it was great to spend time with my sister.  My sister and I got away to get pedicures which was really fun, and I decided to try a new color and got bright green.  I love it!

After spending time in Corvallis I had one shift working at Victorias Secret so I suffered the heat in my car with no air conditioning and drove to Portland for work.  Right after work I drove to Mercer Island to spend a few days with Mark and his family.  Lots of fun! Mark and I went to a Mariners v Yankees game (the one where Jose got a grand slam and Ichiro robbed A-Rod of a homer!)  we also went to a sounders game and had all you can eat tickets which was so cool!! Mark, his brother, Steven, and I also went to the beach to check out the Seafair Pirates landing.  Mark only had to work once while I was there so I hung out with his family that day, his mom, sister, brother and I even saw Despicable Me which was even better than I had expected!  Mark had a few tests to take in Eugene for his online classes so after a few days on the island we drove down to Eugene for a few days.  It was weird to be in Eugene but it was fun still.  We got to hang out with our friend Russell and while Mark studied I transcribed an hour long interview for a few professors and a grad student doing a study on Tracktown USA.  The trip was very fun, and I am sad to be back in Portland by myself.

I have worked two games since I've been back and we had an hour long meeting this morning at 8am at Victorias Secret.  P.S. that one hour meeting is the only hours I have on the schedule in two weeks.  There is new management and it is really frustrating for me.  It was nice to have the days off that I wanted to vacation but the fact that when I am in Portland doing nothing I still don't work is really frustrating for me.

PGE Park is still great though! Love it!

From the Mariners vs Yankees Game

All-inclusive seats for the Sounders Game

Always Mikaylee

House sitting

Still loving working at PGE Park, I am paying to park still but I love being there.  Yesterday the Timbers played the Sounders but I had the game off and Mark was in town so we went to the game and it was so much fun, and having the All-Access pass for PGE was pretty helpful.  My aunt and uncle traded houses again and I was getting kicked out, fortunately my cousin had two places to house sit so I got to stay at one house and house sit for him. There were two CRAZY dogs that I took care of, trust me how crazy you are thinking, they are crazier.  Mark helped me house sit and it was great to spend some time with him.  Victorias Secret is only giving me 1 shift a week, which is really annoying, but it does give me time to do a lot of other things.  Also both the Timbers and Beavers are gone a lot in the coming weeks.  I work Saturday Sunday and Monday and then I am off til like the 18th!  So I am going to Corvallis on Tuesday because my Leesie, Jimmy and Emmett are coming to town, I am so excited to see them!  Then I work next Friday at Victorias Secret, and after that I am planning on driving up to Mercer Island to spend more time with Mark.  So yep, lifes going well.  I'll try to write again soon!